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From: |
Richard M. Stallman |
Subject: |
www/philosophy whats-wrong-with-youtube.html |
Date: |
Tue, 27 Dec 2016 16:36:41 +0000 (UTC) |
CVSROOT: /web/www
Module name: www
Changes by: Richard M. Stallman <rms> 16/12/27 16:36:41
Modified files:
philosophy : whats-wrong-with-youtube.html
Log message:
Small cleanups.
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/whats-wrong-with-youtube.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.23&r2=1.24
Patches:
Index: whats-wrong-with-youtube.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/whats-wrong-with-youtube.html,v
retrieving revision 1.23
retrieving revision 1.24
diff -u -b -r1.23 -r1.24
--- whats-wrong-with-youtube.html 18 Nov 2016 06:31:39 -0000 1.23
+++ whats-wrong-with-youtube.html 27 Dec 2016 16:36:41 -0000 1.24
@@ -35,14 +35,15 @@
<p>The developers of youtube-dl need to keep changing it as the site
changes. The mere <em>attempt</em> to stop you from downloading a
- file is mistreatment even if you can overcome it.</p></li>
+ file is wrongdoing even if you can overcome it.</p></li>
</ul>
<p>The free software community has made progress in overcoming these
-problems. It is getting easier to access YouTube videos without
-running nonfree software. Indeed, the HTML5 Video Everywhere add-on
-for Firefox (included in IceCat) takes care of this, though it occasionally
-breaks temporarily when sites change their undocumented APIs.</p>
+problems. It is getting easier to access YouTube videos (except those
+with DRM) without running nonfree software. Indeed, the HTML5 Video
+Everywhere add-on for Firefox (included in IceCat) takes care of this,
+though it occasionally breaks temporarily when sites change their
+undocumented APIs.</p>
<p>However, most users don't use such methods, so putting a video on
YouTube usually leads people to watch it by running nonfree
@@ -50,9 +51,9 @@
<p>One thing about YouTube that is <em>not</em> a moral strike against
it is nonfree software on YouTube servers — if there is any. We
-as outsiders can't tell whether the servers run any nonfree software,
-because it has no effect on us — which is why it is not an
-injustice towards us.</p>
+as possible users of YouTube can't tell whether the servers run any
+nonfree software, because that has no effect on us — therefore
+it is doesn't do wrong to us.</p>
<p>If there are any nonfree programs running on YouTube servers, they
mistreat Google by denying Google control of that aspect of its
@@ -127,7 +128,7 @@
<p class="unprintable">Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2016/11/18 06:31:39 $
+$Date: 2016/12/27 16:36:41 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
</div>
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